Sowing wallflowers in March seedlings, care

Levkoy (Mattioli) - annual plant with fragrant flowers. There are also biennial, and perennial species. Sown seedlings in March. Planted in the ground beginning to the end of May and beginning of June. It blooms in June and the growing season lasts until autumn. To grow levkoy by seedling, it takes 3 months.

How to plant

I chose for planting levkoy undersized "Caprice". This mixture of different colors and semi-double-type terry. Nicely will look when boarding the curbs, flower beds and container. It is possible to sow in peat several tablets or achenes small shallow container with the purchased ground.

Soil should choose loose, air and fertile. That it vozduhoemkoy added larger fraction as vermiculite or perlite.

If you sow in the container, the soil surface should be well razravnyat. Then take a bag and sprinkle the seeds on the soil right out of him. Alternatively, pour the seeds (they are not smaller, average size) and a saucer with tweezers expanded in the groove in the region of 1.5-2 cm apart.

If the seed in the bag turned out to be a lot, it is better to use another container planting.

Sprinkle ground layer is not more than 0.5 cm. Compact the soil using a tablespoon. Well watered crops or spray with pulvelizatora.

Soil mixture should be sterile. Recommend handle boiling water even purchase the ground, because there may be a chance that the infection has been preserved in the soil.

Cover landing glass lid or polyethylene. In a warm and bright place where the temperature is below + 23 to + 25 degrees. Every day you need to ventilate the crops for a few minutes to get rid of the condensation.

Care of seedlings

In a week there will be shoots. Shelter can be removed (film or cover glass). At high temperatures, they are quickly drawn, so they must be put on the window sill, wherein the temperature is usually 18 + + 20 degrees. If possible, it is best to put on a glassed-in balcony.

And in April, on a sunny day can be set on the day of a container of seedlings in the greenhouse polycarbonate.

Next, you need to monitor soil moisture. It is important to prevent the drying of soil and waterlogged. If the seedlings are strongly stretched, we can pour the calcined sand mixed with ashes. Such a mixture would prevent infection, especially Black leg.

When two real leaves levkoy undersized dive into separate cups. In the same period, you can fertilize a complex mineral fertilizer.

Transplanting to produce well-lit and ventilated areas by the end of May, which had not plants grow cruciferous (cabbage decorative and Iberis, allisum to example). Since flower culture as levkoy clubroot may be ill.

for established plants Care normal. This watering, weeding and fertilizing.

Thus, plus growing wallflowers undersized through seedlings that can wait for flowering in June. And if you sow seeds in late April in the exhaust gas, the plants bloom only in late July-early August.

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